The UAE’s civil aviation regulator has lifted a 23-month ban on the Boeing 737 Max jet and has deemed the aircraft safe to return to the skies, according to the state-run news agency WAM.
“Lifting the ban on the aircraft is the result of the intensive efforts by the authority’s technical committee to evaluate all the technical requirements by the US Federal Aviation Authority, Boeing and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which led the committee to identify the technical conditions that all airlines must address to guarantee the plane’s return to the skies,” Saif Al Suwaidi, director general of the General Civil Aviation Authority…